Re: Re: Sealand and Experimental Rocketry
-- On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:23:22 Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:17:32PM +0000, Ken Brown wrote:
There have been commercial launches from Kenya, and from offshore platforms in the Indian Ocean.
Right. I recall the company is SeaLaunch (I wrote about them once, a Boeing venture, I believe) and uses an old oil platform they towed there from the Atlantic.
Yes, Boeing is a partner, as is Kraevner a Norweigan company that supplied a refurbished semisubmersible drilling rig. They use Russian Zenit rockets which are loaded on the platform in Long Beach then the launch platform and command and support ships move to equatorial waters for the launch. And you're absolutely right, SeaLand can't support that sort of operation, nor does it provide an equatorial launch site. Jim
SeaLand is not exactly quite as capable.
-Declan
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jim Windle wrote:
Yes, Boeing is a partner, as is Kraevner a Norweigan company that supplied a refurbished semisubmersible drilling rig. They use Russian Zenit rockets which are loaded on the platform in Long Beach then the launch platform and command and support ships move to equatorial waters for the launch. And you're absolutely right, SeaLand can't support that sort of operation, nor does it provide an equatorial launch site.
Which is irrelevant because nobody but you, Tim, Declan, and the rest of the Peyote Pete Club was talking about anything like this. For people that seem to be so sophisticated, it's surprising you don't understand concepts like 'amateur rocket' or 'can-sat'. ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------
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